Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Back on Christmas Day in
1956 Brooke Bond unleashed apes onto Britain’s TV and used real chimps to
advertise their PG Tips tea for over 45 years (finally giving in and stopping
in 2002) – with the exception of 1968 (and they brought them back 18 months
later). These monkeys became a pop culture phenomenon, turning PG Tips (pee-gee
tips) into the number one selling brand of tea in Britain – yes, monkeys really
can do anything, including influence people on what tea to buy.

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Yes that reference was
necessary, very necessary and should tell you all you need to know I think, but
in case it didn't – congratulations you’re going to enjoy me telling you all
you need to know: last year (2014) I became convinced that I had produced
nothing of worth and would, if I carried on the way I was, leave nothing behind
for people to remember me except maybe a lingering smell no amount of Febreeze
could ever hope to destroy, and then was depressed for a while. I felt very
unimportant, so I decided to do what everyone who feels unimportant does –
start a blog! Hooray for me and the internet.

I am under no illusions, no
one will read this fucking thing but I am going to pretend people ARE reading
this and try and always post about something worth reading about, no one wants
to read about my pets or trips to supermarkets – especially as all my pets are
dead. But I need some kind of
introductory post and LFCC will have to do – I figure me talking about old toys
is marginally more interesting than me talking about my dead pets.